Cotton On-Call Report

|                                Weekly Report No. 6
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|      "On call" positions in spot cotton based on New York Cotton futures
|      reported by merchants in special account status 1/ as of  2/8/02
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|                                 (In Contracts)
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|            |                                           |    Open Futures
|            |        Call Cotton Based New York         | Contracts - New York
|            |                                           |   Cotton Exchange
|Futures     |-------------------------------------------|----------------------
|            |  Unfixed |  Change  |  Unfixed |  Change  |  At      |  Change
|Based       |  Call    |  From    |  Call    |  From    |  Close   |  From
|            |  Sales   |  Prev.   |  Purchs. |  Prev.   |          |  Prev.
|On:         |          |  Week    |          |  Week    |  2/8/02  |  Week
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|March    '02      2,394       -597      2,555       -687     21,862    -2,720
|May      '02      6,259       -379      2,565         -2     18,042     3,399
|July     '02     12,181       -462      3,181        224     13,520       862
|October  '02      2,271        -33        151          0        554        86
|December '02      2,843        -86        427          0     11,370       785
|March    '03      1,464         17          0          0      1,311       104
|May      '03        921          0         80          0      1,107       100
|July     '03      1,110          0        370          0        640        10
|October  '03        259          0          0          0         10         0
|December '03        209          0          0          0         83        19
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|   Totals:       29,911     -1,540      9,329       -465     68,499     2,645
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|1/ Merchants with futures positions of 50 or more contracts in one future.
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|This report is published by the Commission's Division of Economic Analysis.
|If you have any questions concerning this report, call Vincent G. Varisano,
|Industry Economist, Eastern Region at (201) 234-6922.
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|Released after 3:00 p.m. Eastern Time
|2/14/02
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